Pearson group

Pearson in education

Educating 100 million people worldwide, Pearson Education is the world's biggest education company. Pearson Education's solutions include books and resources that help students to learn, teachers to teach, and professionals to evolve throughout their careers. The carefully designed learning tools help people around the world to expand their knowledge, develop their skills and realize their potential. The company is committed to provide quality content, assessment tools and educational services in all available media spanning the learning curve from birth through university and beyond. Find out more about Pearson in education

Financial Times Group

The Financial Times Group, one of the world's leading business information companies, provides a broad range of business information and multimedia services to the international business community. Find out more about the Financial Times Group

Penguin Group

The world-famous Penguin brand is the label of quality from novels and classics to cookbooks and much more—around the world. We publish an unrivalled range of fiction and non-fiction, bestsellers and classics, children's books and illustrated reference treasure chests in over 100 countries. Find out more about the Penguin Group

Pearson in India

Pearson is a global media, education and publishing group, represented by market-leading businesses such as the Financial Times, Pearson Education and Penguin. These three business units have been operating in India for more than 20 years and, with more recent Indian entrants such as Pearson Vue and Edexcel, are all on a path of aggressive growth in the Indian market. Pearson employs about 2000 people in India.

Pearson Education India (PEI) is an integrated educational services company providing high quality content, technology and services to schools, colleges and professional training organizations across the subcontinent. It covers 10,000 of the top schools in the country, providing textbooks, digital content, teacher training and clinical assessments. Pearson’s Edexcel division, a leading provider of internationally recognized academic and vocational qualifications, works with over 300 schools in the subcontinent, helping them to deliver the IGCSE and A-level certificates. PEI also publishes textbooks for three state governments. Over 30 professional training organizations are delivering Edexcel’s BTEC Higher National Diploma. In Higher Education, PEI provides textbooks and e-learning materials to colleges across the country; its editors create original material as well as adapt international texts to better suit Indian students. PEI also translates international books into five major Indian languages, and creates customized solutions to institutions, including curriculum design and custom publishing.

Penguin Books India is the largest and most respected English-language consumer publisher in the subcontinent and publishes the country’s best-known authors including Shobha De and Amitav Ghosh. Separately, Dorling Kindersley, a leading publisher of reference and travel books, has, in the past three months added 100 people, taking its strength to 250 people in Delhi and positioning the India unit alongside the London headquarters at the heart of the DK network around the world.

The Financial Times has a leading position among global news organizations in its coverage of the Indian economy.

Pearson's professional testing business, Pearson Vue has established its Asia-Pacific headquarters in India, recognizing the potential of the market, and MergerMarket, a provider of high-value market intelligence for financial institutions, set up a bureau in 2005.

In 2008, Pearson Assessment set up its Clinical and Talent Assessment office in Bangalore, recognizing the need to make its assessment tools more accessible to the growing number of professionals in fields such as education, psychology and human resources.

In 2009, Pearson launched Pearson Test of English – Academic, a computer-based test of English Language. The test is endorsed by Graduate Management Admission Council® (GMAC®).

In the same year, Pearson formed a joint venture with Educomp, India's largest education company, IndiaCan, which focuses on vocational education and skill development, and also invested in Bangalore-based online tutoring and schools development company, TutorVista. More recently, Pearson acquired majority stake in TutorVista with the largest ever deal in the Indian education sector.